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Understanding emerging discourses of Marine Spatial Planning in the UK |
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| Affiliation: | 1. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science Center for Coastal Monitoring & Assessment, Biogeography Branch SSMC4, 1305 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910, United States;2. Centre for Marine and Coastal Policy Research, Marine Institute, Plymouth University, Drake Circus, Plymouth PL4 8AA, United Kingdom;3. CSS-Dynamac Inc., 10301 Democracy Lane, Suite 300, Fairfax, VA 22030, United States;1. University of New South Wales, Institute of Environmental Studies, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Sydney 2052, Australia;2. Evolution and Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, UNSW, Sydney 2052, Australia;3. Sydney Institute of Marine Science, Chowder Bay Road, Mosman, 2088 NSW, Australia |
| Abstract: | This paper investigates the emergence of Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) through Rhetorical Analysis of three UK marine policy documents. The analysis focuses on the rhetorical presentation of key MSP policy documents located within the previous Government period and seeks to reveal the rationality of how MSP was constructed at that time. This highlights the assumptions and ideologies emerging from this area of Government regulation and suggests that MSP reveals a discourse that may be aligned with New Labour and that bears the hallmarks of post-political environmental consensus. The findings of the analysis allow us to understand the significance of MSP's emergence and to question the future of MSP within a new political context. |
| Keywords: | Marine Spatial Planning Rhetorical Analysis Discourse Policy making |
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